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CLEVELAND – Five men described by the government as self-proclaimed anarchists entered not guilty pleas Monday to charges that accuse them of plotting to bomb a highway bridge near Cleveland.
The five will remain in jail until their next hearing, a federal magistrate said. A detention hearing scheduled for Monday was postponed.
The men were arrested last week when they allegedly tried to detonate what turned out to be a dud bomb provided by an FBI undercover informant.
The five had been associated with Occupy Cleveland, but organizers of the movement have tried to distance the group from the men. They say the five didn't represent it or its non-violent philosophy.
The men were indicted last week on three counts each, including a charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction to destroy property in interstate commerce.
Those charged, all jailed a week ago, are Douglas L. Wright, 26, of Indianapolis; Brandon L. Baxter, 20, of nearby Lakewood; Connor C. Stevens, 20, of suburban Berea; and Joshua S. Stafford, 23, and Anthony Hayne, 35, both of Cleveland.
One defense attorney called it a case of entrapment, with the informant guiding the way. Stafford's lawyer told U.S. Magistrate Greg White on Monday that his client had been duped and asked that the charges be dismissed, The Plain Dealer reported.
The men could face life in prison if convicted of trying to bomb the soaring bridge over the Cuyahoga Valley National Park at Brecksville, south of Cleveland. The bridge crosses a scenic railway line and a canal tow path popular with joggers and bikers.
The men allegedly acted out of anger against corporate America and the government, authorities said. They considered blowing up the bridge at night or clearing it of traffic by pretending to be a construction crew to limit casualties, authorities said in court papers.


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Remember, remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason, why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, guy, t'was his intent
To blow up king and parliament.
Three score barrels were laid below
To prove old England's overthrow.
By God's mercy he was catch'd
With a darkened lantern and burning match.
So, holler boys, holler boys, Let the bells ring.
Holler boys, holler boys, God save the king.
And what shall we do with him?
Burn him!

subset: commoncrawl


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Pam Anderson -- Boozy Lap Dancing on Sunset Blvd
Pam Anderson Boozy Lap Dancing on Sunset Blvd
Most people go to Boa for steak ... Pam Anderson goes to Boa to lap dance ... and the crotch-grinding was all caught on tape.
The 44-year-old former "Baywatch" star hit up the restaurant after the L.A. Kings playoff victory last night ... and she was in the mood to party.
Pam was hanging out at a table in the front of the restaurant with a bunch of guys ...and after a few swigs of vino ... a sexually-charged Anderson offered up some quality table-dances to some of her friends.
Isn't is great when the Kings win?


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Typically for the company that invented the iPod, the turbine will be different to contemporary designs. According to tech blog AppleInsider, the turbine will convert energy into heat storage rather than directly into electricity.
In its patent application, Apple says the new system will convert the rotational energy from the turbine into heat that will be stored in "low heat capacity" liquid.
AppleInsider's report states:
"In some embodiments, heat is generated from the friction created between blades connected to the rotor shaft and the low-heat-capacity fluid, such as mercury, ethanol or an inert gas, in which they are immersed. Thermal energy is stored in an insulated vessel. A thermally insulating component like a radiator or conductive rod can be used to selectively transfer heat from the low-heat-capacity fluid to the working based on electrical demand. Finally, the working fluid boils and creates steam which rotates a turbine connected to an electric generator."
However, Apple may have some way to go before it changes the energy storage device in the same way the iPhone changed telecommunications.
The application said the new system can reduce costs associated with variations in wind supply. This heavily depends on grid conditions (strong or weak) and wind power capacity as a share of total power plant capacity. In the Netherlands, PhD research concluded that large-scale energy storage will only be necessary if the share of wind power exceeds one third of total grid capacity.
Battery powered systems are expensive and normally restricted to so-called island systems, such as offline turbines serving isolated arctic communities without grid connection in Alaska.
Storage systems typically add substantially to system investment and power generating costs, and energy storage generally reduces overall system efficiency. In hydropower storage systems total efficiency loss of 12 – 20% is not unrealistic.
Recently, large numbers of storage solutions have been proposed, but high costs and efficiency loss continue to hamper a breakthrough of such systems.


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The National Library of Jamaica was established in 1979 and was founded on resources of the West India Reference Library (WIRL), established in 1894. The National Library of Jamaica has redefined the collection with specific emphasis on the acquisition of Jamaican materials in all formats: printed, audio-visual and digital. This acquisition of the national collection has been further strengthened by the Legal Deposit Act which was passed in 2002.
Riots and Rebellions is a digitized collection of resources from the National Library of Jamaica. The collection brings together books, pamphlets, government documents, maps, prints and photographs related to two landmark events in Jamaica's history: 1831 Sam Sharpe Rebellion / Baptist War and 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion.
Materials from the National Library of Jamaica in dLOC include:
See more from the National Library of Jamaica: Digital.
The NLJ website address has been changed to http://www.nlj.gov.jm


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Lorrie Morgan The Sad Café Lyrics
Out in the shiny night, the rain
was softly falling
The tracks that ran down the boulevard had
all been washed away
Out of the silver light, the past came softly calling
And I remember the times we spent inside the Sad Cafe
Oh, it seemed like a holy place,
protected by amazing grace
And we would sing right out loud, the things we could not say We thought we could change this world
with words like "love" and "freedom" We were part of the lonely crowd Inside the Sad Cafe
Oh, expecting to fly,
we would meet on that shore in the
sweet by and by
Some of their dreams came true,
some just passed away
And some of the stayed behind
inside the Sad Cafe.
The clouds rolled in and hid that shore
Now that Glory Train, it don't stop here no more
Now I look at the years gone by,
and wonder at the powers that be.
I don't know why fortune smiles on some
and let's the rest go free
Maybe the time has drawn the faces I recall
But things in this life change very slowly,
if they ever change at all
There's no use in asking why,
it just turned out that way
So meet me at midnight baby
inside the Sad Cafe.
Why don't you meet me at midnight baby,
inside the Sad Cafe.
See also:
Maria Tănase Cine iubeste si lasă Lyrics
Jim Morrison Tape Noon Lyrics


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The NY Times runs a piece on immigration from a self-declared "liberal restrictionist". Guess what? In his time as a reporter he learned that Big Business liked the availability of cheap labor AND leftists liked the prospect of new union members and (one day) voters. Who knew?!?
I'm a Liberal Who Thinks Immigration Must Be Restricted
Immigration can invigorate the country. But when it is poorly managed, it can cause social division — just as it's doing right now.
In 2001, when I was the new Washington correspondent for The Arizona Republic, I attended the annual awards dinner of the National Immigration Forum. The forum is a left-right coalition that lobbies for unauthorized immigrants and expansive immigration policies. Its board has included officials of the National Council of La Raza, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, as well as the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Restaurant Association and the American Nursery and Landscape Association.
After dinner, the group's executive director, Frank Sharry, made a pitch to business allies who wanted Congress to allow them unfettered access to foreign workers. "You guys in business get all the workers you want, whenever you want them," he proposed. "No bureaucracy."
"Sold!" yelled John Gay, a lobbyist for the American Hotel and Lodging Association. Mr. Sharry quickly added that the deal must include advocacy for "three little, tiny pieces of paper: a green card, a union card and a voter registration card" for unauthorized immigrants.
For me, a reporter who had long covered immigration in the Southwest and Mexico, the exchange was a revelation about the politics of immigration in Washington. Business lobbyists like Mr. Gay — conservatives who seek loose labor markets so employers can keep wages down — align themselves with liberal activists like Frank Sharry to pursue policies that serve their groups.
OK, that was 2001, but really? The Chamber of Commerce Republicans have been in an unholy immigration alliance with the Emerging Democratic Majority people for decades.
Who, I wondered, was lobbying for the American workers competing with the new arrivals? The answer, I learned, was no one. As the former labor secretary Robert Reich once put it, "There's no National Association of Working Poor."
This mismatch of political influence, combined with the social and fiscal consequences of a wave of low-skilled immigrants, led me to believe that immigration should be restricted so that its power to invigorate our country is not eclipsed by its potential to harm workers. I think immigration, like capitalism itself, should be regulated in the national interest, not shaped to serve the free-market libertarianism of the right or the post-national humanitarianism of the left.
That's why I call myself a liberal restrictionist.
This might be Mickey Kaus' moment.


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Posted by Editor on 08/11/03
TransRockies Challenge
There were no changes on the leader's board at the TransRockies Challenge today, Day 2 in the race. We have received our daily update from the team of Gilles Morneau and Michel Leblanc of the VeloMag squad. The second stage stage of the revised race (due to forest fires in BC) was 136 kilometres long, with 3000 metres of elevation gain. Even the top squads were taking over 6 hours, with some teams likely to come in well after dark.
"I think the organizers lost it today, this was crazy, and it's only the second day." said Morneau. Leblanc agreed. "There were many steep climbs, many of them hike-a-bike sections. We started at 8:00 am, and within 10 kilometres Gilles had broken three spokes on his rear wheel. We did a repair on the trail, but his wheel was wobbling like two inches from side to side. It had no freewheeling either, so the pedals had to keep going around like a track bike. it was pretty scary on the downhills!"
The second place squad of Andreas Hestler and Matt Decore were also having problems, according to Leblanc, with Hestler getting two flats and Decore one. They lost 30 minutes to the lead team of Andreas Strobel and Sivio Wieltschnig (Team Adidas / Fiat Rotwild).
Stage three continues tomorrow with a 140 kilometre stage, but Morneau says that the terrain will be "easier"...
Stage 2
1 Team Adidas / Fiat Rotwild (Andreas Strobel/Sivio Wieltschnig) 6:09
2 Team Pete (Andreas Hestler/Matt Decore) 6:39
3 Global Xtreme TV / Gearsracing.com (Greg Reain/Matt Patterson) 6:46
5 VeloMag (Gilles Morneau/Michel Leblanc) 7:20
Morneau and Leblanc are 9 seconds out of first place in the Masters standings.
Dave Butler from Jet Fuel has provided a more complete explanation of the "train" incident at yesterday's Montreal-Quebec race. The break formed approximately 100 kilometres into the 250 kilometre race, with riders bridging up to create a lead group of 18. With most major teams represented, including Navigators and Saturn, the group was four plus minutes clear with about 55 kilometres remaining.
At the train crossing, Jeff Hansen (Atlas Cold/Italpasta) had a gap at the front, with Czeslaw Lukaszewicz (Opus/Élio Pizzeria) and Steve Rover (Opus/Élio Pizzeria) bridging up. The lights of the crossing were flashing, with a police officer standing on the tracks to flag the riders down (apparently the train was stopped, very close to the crossing). Hansen, Lukaszewicz and Rover went by the police officer, with the rest of the break slowing down as they approached the crossing. Thorben Weiditz (Midweek Elite/Thornhill SAAB), François Parisien (Espoirs de Laval), Peter Morse (Midweek Elite/Thornhill SAAB) and Sébastien Moquin (Colnago-Carrera) then decided to also cross the tracks, evading the police.
The rest of the break waited for the train to cross, as did the peloton (held behind the break). The peloton was started with the same time gap behind the break after the train went by. The seven riders who had gone on ahead were disqualified when the commissaires caught up to them.
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WASHINGTON >> Spurred to action by the downing of the Malaysian airliner, the European Union approved dramatically tougher economic sanctions Tuesday against Russia, followed swiftly by a new round of U.S. penalties targeting key sectors of the Russian economy.
The coordinated sanctions were aimed at increasing pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his country's support for separatists in eastern Ukraine whom the West blames for taking down the passenger jet nearly two weeks ago. President Barack Obama and U.S. allies also warned that Russia was building up troops and weaponry along its border with Ukraine.
"Today Russia is once again isolating itself from the international community, setting back decades of genuine progress," Obama said. "It does not have to be this way. This a choice Russia and President Putin has made."
Europe's actions were particularly significant given that the continent has a far stronger economic relationship with Russia than the U.S. does Until this week, the EU sanctions had lagged behind American penalties, in part because of leaders' concerns about a negative impact on their own economies.
But Europe's calculus shifted sharply after a surface-to-air missile brought down the passenger jet, killing nearly 300 people including more than 200 Europeans.
European Union President Herman Van Rompuy and the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, said the sanctions sent a "strong warning" that Russia's destabilization of Ukraine cannot be tolerated.
"When the violence created spirals out of control and leads to the killing of almost 300 innocent civilians in their flight from the Netherlands to Malaysia, the situation requires urgent and determined response," the two top EU officials said in a statement.
Yet it remains uncertain whether the tougher penalties will have any impact on Russia's actions in Ukraine — nor was it clear what other actions the U.S. and Europe were willing to take if the situations remains unchanged. U.S. officials said they believe economic pressure remains their most effective tool, and Obama reiterated his opposition to sending lethal aid to the Ukrainian military.
The new European penalties include an arms embargo on Moscow and a ban on the unapproved sale to the Russians of technology that has dual military and civilian uses or is particularly sensitive, such as advanced equipment used in deep-sea and Arctic oil drilling.
To restrict Russia's access to Europe's money markets, EU citizens and banks will be barred from purchasing certain bonds or stocks issued by state-owned Russian banks, according to EU officials.
The specific targets of the EU actions will be published Thursday, when they will take effect.
U.S. officials said they expected Europe's list of targets to include some of the same energy companies, defense entities and financial institutions the Obama administration hit with sanctions the day before the Malaysian airliner was shot out of the sky. The White House has been pressing Europe in recent days to bring its penalties in line with the U.S., both to increase the economic pressure on Moscow and present a united Western front.
As part of that effort, Obama also announced an expansion of the U.S. sanctions on Russian economic sectors. Among the targets were three major Russian banks: the Bank of Moscow, Russian Agricultural Bank and VTB Bank, Russia's second largest bank.
Administration officials said 30 percent of the Russian banking sector's assets were now targeted by U.S. sanctions. The main function of the sanctions is to curtail the financial institutions' ability to access U.S. debt markets, not to block individual users from using their accounts or credit cards, according to the officials.
The U.S. also targeted the St. Petersburg-based United Shipbuilding Corporation, a defense technologies firm, and was blocking future technology sales to Russia's oil industry.
The U.S. and European officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the sanctions by name.
Dahlburg reported from Brussels.


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John O'Donoghue
John F. O'Donoghue is the head of equities at Cowen & Company L.L.C and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. As such, John oversees the firm's research sales, sales trading, and all trading areas of the firm, along with strategic planning and expansion of the firm's franchise.
Prior to joining Cowen in 2005, John was managing director and co-head of trading at Credit Suisse First Boston and was a member of that firm's Global Equity Operating Committee. Before that, he was a partner at Schroders PLC and spent 17 years working with Schroders, including six years as managing director.
A native of County Down, John received an honors BSc degree in economics from Queen's University in Belfast. He moved to the United States in 1980 and has been active in the American Ireland Fund, serving on the last seven chairman's committees for the annual New York Gala. John also serves on the QUB Advisory Board (US) and is married to Debbie with two sons, John Patrick and Brendan.


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NSWP member HOOK, is a sex worker-led organisation based in New York, US. HOOK works with male sex workers and offers workshops on life skills including financial literacy and legal advice and hosts discussions about working smarter through its Rent U program. HOOK also conducts research into sex work by men in the US.
Hook has developed a series of resources for male sex workers including:
1. Party and Playing the Smart Way
2. Boundary Basics – 5 Simple Smart Safety Tips for Working in the Sex Industry
3. Physician Fitness – Looking for a Doctor While Working in the Sex Biz
6. Client Guide
9. Working Man's Pocket Guide to Turning Trade
These resources are very useful for sex workers in general and we would encourage members to share resources and best practices. Members who would like to develop similar resources of their own are encouraged to view/download these resources.


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2 small yellow onions
4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
2 tablespoons white or regular balsamic vinegar
3 cups (packed) baby arugula (about 2¼ ounces)
½ pound large sea scallops, patted dry
½ ounce crumbled chèvre (goat cheese)
1. Cut onions into quarters; then thinly slice (or dice small). In a large, heavy skillet, heat 2 tablespoons oil over medium heat. Add onions and cook, stirring often, until golden and very soft, 15–25 minutes. (Reduce heat to medium-low if they start cooking too quickly.) Deglaze pan with balsamic vinegar. Season to taste with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Remove from heat and fold in arugula.
2. Sprinkle scallops with salt and pepper. Heat a second heavy skillet over high heat and add remaining oil; when very hot, add scallops and sear 1–2 minutes per side.
3. Mound onion mixture onto plates. Top with scallops and goat cheese.
PER SERVING: 405 cal, 28g fat (20g mono, 3g poly, 5g sat), 40mg chol, 22g protein, 13g carb, 2g fiber, 223mg sodium


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Beets, Gerrit (1707-1776)
Gerrit Beets was born 21 December 1707, ordained as preacher of the congregation of Hamburg-Altona in February 1727, and chosen as elder there in 1749. He was a man of large physique and strong spirit, so eloquent that he was called the Apollo of the church. G. Karsdorp, Jr., writes of him, "His addresses to baptismal candidates and at communion services were especially moving; the Lord was in the temple through the mouth of His servant." On 9 December 1776 a cerebral hemorrhage ended his life in the midst of a sermon. Karsdorp preached his funeral sermon, which was printed in Altona in 1777. His father was Jan Beets, a deacon in Hamburg from 1703 to 1712. The 1710 letter from the Dutch ambassador in Bern to a J. Beets in Hoorn mentioned by Ernst Müller (Berner Täufer) may have been addressed to him. Printed works of his are the following: Lijkrede op H. T. de Jager (1749); Lijkrede op G. Karsdorp de Oude (1750): De vroolyke gesettheyd eenes Christens tegens de verschrikkingen des doods, . . . and Denkmaal in de Harten van Gods Volk, (1749); also Preek over I. Cor. 4, 4 en 5, the sermon in which he was interrupted by the stroke.
Roosen, Berend Carl. Geschichte der Mennoniten-Gemeinde zu Hamburg und Altona Hamburg: [B.C. Roosen], 1886-1887, Reprinted: Hamburg : [s.n.], 1990: I, 77; II, 11-13, 25, 51, 59-64.
Catalogus der werken over de Doopsgezinden en hunne geschiedenis aanwezig in de bibliotheek der Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam. Amsterdam: J.H. de Bussy, 1919: 252.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 152.
Mennonitische Blätter (1854): 25.
Müller, Ernst. Geschichte der Bernischen Täufer. Frauenfeld: Huber, 1895. Reprinted Nieuwkoop : B. de Graaf, 1972: 257.
Author(s) | Christian Neff |
Date Published | 1953 |
Cite This Article
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Neff, Christian. "Beets, Gerrit (1707-1776)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 26 Feb 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Beets,_Gerrit_(1707-1776)&oldid=143918.
APA style
Neff, Christian. (1953). Beets, Gerrit (1707-1776). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 26 February 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Beets,_Gerrit_(1707-1776)&oldid=143918.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 263. All rights reserved.
©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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I have a ball that can move along any angle, and I want to squash and stretch it based on this angle. To be clear, if you dropped the ball down at a -90 angle, the squash would be all along the y, and the stretch on the x. This wouldn't work however for a 0 degree angle, where the squash is on the x, and the stretch on the right.
Is there a way to generalise this into an equation?


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Install Appgrid on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)
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-- It helps you discover great apps. Every time you start App Grid you'll get a fresh set of apps. Furthermore you can search, filter and sort to get to those apps that interest you most. It's never been easier to explore all the apps that Ubuntu has to offer.
-- It integrates with Ubuntu One. This allows you not only to write reviews, but also to purchase apps.
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Install Appgrid on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Open the terminal and run the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:appgrid/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install appgrid


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I like baskets in my bathroom; since baskets will adjoin shades to anything you have in the room. Baskets also allow you to coordinate with other bathroom accessories, such as shower curtains, throw rugs, sink skirts, etc. On the market, you can find many baskets to choose from. Baskets come in all kinds of shades, contours, and dimensions. Ultimately, you can create your own baskets. Creating your own is fun, since you put heart into your own creation, which brings grand rewards for years to come.
How are baskets created?
Some baskets are made of common newspapers. In addition, you can create baskets from organic grasses from the sea. One can even create baskets from wheat, straw, or uncovered timber, etc. People make baskets from old rags lying around the house also. I have seen some baskets made out of shoeboxes. You can make baskets out of anything you want to, providing you know what type of bathroom accessories you desire to put in your home.
How can I use my basket?
You can use your baskets for many different things, such as storage. I use the baskets to store various items, including correspondence, invoices, etc in the kitchen, yet in the bathroom I store bathe items, such as skin goods, liniments, etc. You can also store hand towels, cosmetics, shaving blends etc in the baskets. I like baskets because they are pretty, and it offers you a great storage facility for many items.
Baskets can be used as compost bucket, or you can store your hair items in the baskets. Baskets give you the advantage of sitting them on shelves or the floor to fill up that vacant corner legroom. You can use the baskets to store your laundry. The storage bin will free up disorder around your bathroom.
How to decorate baskets:
You can use a wide array of items to decorate your baskets. When decorating your own basket try using items, such as ribbons, binds, clasps, etc. You can find old items around the house and come up with your own ideals. Perhaps some idle textile might make a great bend over for your basket. Toting up ribbons to your basket close to the pinnacle is a great idea. In addition, you can interlace ribbon onto your basket, which you cannot go wrong with creating your own exclusive approach.
One of my favorites is the ivy storage baskets. The ivy has a variety of shades that go with everything in your bathroom. In addition, ivy is easy to manage, which means you can create virtually anything you desire.
If you want to add style, try adding dried floral. The flowers will enhance the basket by adding texture, as well as color. At craft stores, you will find a wide array of floral, or you can dry your own.
Moss is good also. The moss works to fill in gaps around the edges and sides of your floral arrangement. Use the moss, adding it to the crown to alter effects. Creating baskets is fun, and you have the choice of designing wall hangers, ivy, floral, and so on.
How to choose your patterns?
It depends on your taste. If you are searching to accomplish uniqueness, then consider your ideas, tastes, desires and other patterns sold on the market. You have wide array of colorful items or plain textures to consider.
How would I make my own baskets?
When making your own basket you will need a few items to get in progress. First, you will need to consider what you intend to generate. Try making a draft before starting your basket project. As you draw up the floor plan, consider basket weaves, and other items you can use to design your product.
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Surveys and Questionnaires: LITA Policy
Divisional use of Paid Consultants: LITA Policy Statement
Solicitation of Consultant Services
Selection of Consultant
Implementation of Board Selection
In the interest of financial stability, LITA will normally maintain a fund balance equal to six months of operating expenses.
Surveys and Questionnaires: LITA Policy
Units will forward draft surveys or questionnaires to the LITA Executive Director. The Executive Director checks the content against past surveys to avoid duplication. The ALA Office for Research reviews the document and make suggestions for needed revisions in form or content. (This also informs Office for Research of division activity in this area.) The Executive Director assists the unit in completing the survey document.
Surveys must be scheduled to allow for distribution by bulk mail. The Executive Director assists the unit in choosing mailing lists and arranging for label production. Any expenditure of division funds required by the surveys or questionnaires must be approved by the Board of directors.
The Executive Director may also assist the unit in compiling the information gathered in the survey and in reporting the results.
Divisional use of Paid Consultants: LITA Policy Statement
June 1986
LITA recognizes the services of paid consultants can be of considerable assistance to the organization in program development, planning, training, and other areas. It is desirable and practical for LITA to make use of the services of consultants in the furtherance of LITA's goals.
For the purposes of this statement, "consultant" is to be broadly interpreted to include such persons as technical experts, trainers, facilitators, planners, writers, workshop and seminar designers, and presenters. Such persons may be from the commercial or not-for-profit sectors. They may or may not be members of LITA or ALA. Individuals or organizations fall into the category of "consultant" if they offer services for pay rather than contribute their services without charge to LITA.
No LITA Board member or related-committee member who may have a conflict of interest because of personal or professional affiliation with any consultant under consideration for a LITA contract will participate in the selection or post-presentation evaluation process. Refer to the Conflict of interest: A statement of policy for ALA Executive Board Members that was adopted by ALA Council in June 1980 for further description of conflict-of-interest guidelines.
The LITA Board of Directors has final responsibility for review and approval of all institutes and programs. Thus, the Board bears full responsibility for the quality, content, and format of programs presented by consultants under contract to LITA. The solicitation, selection and evaluation processes undertaken by designated LITA representatives must ensure that the consultant-based programs support the objectives of the organization in both purpose and quality. At the same time, these processes must ensure responsible consideration of prospective contractors and fair treatment of consultants who contract with LITA.
LITA creates, develops, purchases, sponsors, schedules, and administers programs to serve the needs and interests of its members and the profession at large. Although it is not LITA's primary objective to obtain a profit on programs, this becomes an appropriate objective in the sponsorship of consultant-based programs. No consultant-based program will be approved by the Board unless the planners provide documentation projecting the full recovery of costs plus a financial gain for the organization.
LITA's objectives in providing quality educational programs include a desire to strengthen the organization by attracting new members. This process is perceived to be circular in that prospective members are attracted to an organization that provides high-quality professional educational opportunities, and the enlarged organization is then able to expand its offerings to its members.
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Eye testing for infants
It takes some time for a baby's vision skills to develop. To assess whether your infant's eyes are developing normally, as eye doctors we may use one or more of the following tests:
Pediatric Eye Exams
As a parent, you may wonder whether your pre-schooler has a vision problem or when a first eye exam should be scheduled.
Eye exams for children are extremely important. Experts say 5 to 10% of pre-schoolers and 25% of school-aged children have vision problems. Early identification of a child's vision problem is crucial because, if left untreated, some childhood vision problems can cause permanent vision loss.
When should kids have their eyes examined?
According to the Canadian Association of Optometrists (CAO), infants should have their first comprehensive eye exam at 6 months of age. Children then should receive additional eye exams at 3 years of age, and just before they enter kindergarten or the first grade at about age 5 or 6.
For school-aged children, the AOA recommends an eye exam every two years if no vision correction is required. Children who need eyeglasses or contact lenses should be examined annually or according to their eye doctor's recommendations.
Early eye exams also are important because children need the following basic visual skills for learning:
Scheduling your child's eye exam
Your family doctor or pediatrician likely will be the first medical professional to examine your child's eyes. If eye problems are suspected during routine physical examinations, a referral might be made to an ophthalmologist or optometrist for further evaluation. Eye doctors have specific equipment and training to help them detect and diagnose potential vision problems.
When scheduling an eye exam, choose a time when your child is usually alert and happy. Specifics of how eye exams are conducted depend on your child's age, but an exam generally will involve a case history, vision testing, determination of whether eyeglasses are needed, testing of eye alignment, an eye health examination and a consultation with you regarding the findings.
After you've made the appointment, you may be sent a case history form by mail, or you may be given one when you check in at the doctor's office. The case history form will ask about your child's birth history (also called perinatal history), such as birth weight and whether or not the child was full-term. Your eye doctor also may ask whether complications occurred during the pregnancy or delivery. The form will also inquire about your child's medical history, including current medications and past or present allergies.
Be sure to tell your eye doctor if your child has a history of prematurity, has delayed motor development, engages in frequent eye rubbing, blinks excessively, fails to maintain eye contact, cannot seem to maintain a gaze (fixation) while looking at objects, has poor eye tracking skills or has failed a pediatrician or pre-school vision screening.
Your eye doctor will also want to know about previous ocular diagnoses and treatments involving your child, such as possible surgeries and glasses or contact lens wear. Be sure you inform your eye doctor if there is a family history of eye problems requiring vision correction, such as nearsightedness or farsightedness, misaligned eyes (strabismus) or amblyopia ("lazy eye").
Eye testing for pre-school children
Pre-school children can have their eyes thoroughly tested even if they don't yet know the alphabet or are too young or too shy to answer the doctor's questions. Some common eye tests used specifically for young children include:
Eye and vision problems that affect children
Besides looking for nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism (refractive errors), your eye doctor will be examining your child's eyes for signs of these eye and vision problems commonly found in young children:


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Lichenoid Eruptions
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Conditions in which there is histological damage to the lower epidermis along with a grouped chronic inflammatory infiltrate in the papillary dermis disturbing the interface between the epidermis and dermis. LICHEN PLANUS is the prototype of all lichenoid eruptions. (From Rook et al., Textbook of Dermatology, 4th ed, p398)


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eBooks are like a good spy: seen but not truly noticed until the last minute when it is too late — at least that was the case for me.
As each day passes, I find that I am more inclined to read an ebook and less inclined to read a pbook. This was finally hammered home to me with the release of two new fantasy novels, Terry Brooks' Bearers of the Black Staff and Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings.
I wanted both of these books for my library, so I bought them in hardcover when they were released (just in the past few weeks). I finished an excellent mystery in ebook form (Vicki Tyley's Thin Blood, a great buy at $2.99 and an excellent read) and decided to next pickup the Brooks book. My habit is to be reading 1 or 2 nonfiction books and 1 fiction book (usually an ebook) concurrently. So I put down my Sony Reader and picked up the Brooks hardcover and got as far as the copyright page, when I realized that I didn't want to read the book in pbook form; I wanted to read it as an ebook. I also realized that I felt the same about the Sanderson book. So I bought both books in ebook form and put the hardcovers on my library shelves. For once, the publishers got me twice.
Combine this my recent struggling to get through any nonfiction book in recent weeks because I really want to pick up my Sony Reader rather than the hardcover, and a dawning occurred – I finally realized that given a choice between an ebook and a pbook, I really do prefer to read an ebook on my Sony Reader.
The preference for ebooks stealthily snuck up on me. Unfortunately, I also recognize that my preferred books to read are nonfiction and ebooks aren't quite there yet if the nonfiction book is loaded with illustrations and notes (perhaps the new readers will be better; I plan to try a nonfiction book on the Sony 950 when I get it). So I'm in a quandary: on what do I compromise? Do I forego the footnotes (99.9% of which are useless anyway and are present only to impress readers with the extent of the author's "research") and illustrations (many of which help explain the text) and read nonfiction in ebook form, or do I forego the pleasure of reading on my Sony Reader and continue to read nonfiction in pbook form? I suspect that the latter is what will happen for the most part, although I will start buying nonfiction ebooks when possible.
Of greater concern is whether I am seeing a new phase in my buying habits, a phase where I buy the hardcover for my library and the ebook to actually read — format double-dipping. Double-dipping could become a mighty expensive proposition, and as much as I love books, double-dipping makes no sense, especially as I do not truly "own" the ebook versions of the books that I would double-dip.
Here is where willpower comes into play. I am resolute (at least for the moment) that the Brooks/Sanderson double-dip will not be repeated. How resolute I am is yet to be tested, especially if the new device meets my hopes as regards the reading experience. (Wouldn't it be nice if publishers said buy the hardcover and we'll give you the ebook for a token price?)
The problem is ebooks and the very positive reading experience, at least on my Sony Reader (I don't feel this same lure when reading books on my desktop or laptop; then I can't wait to go to the pbook). eBooks are seductive. First, they are convenient — I love the ease of carrying my Sony Reader everywhere, such as while my wife shops. Second, 95% of the ebooks I buy are significantly less expensive than a pbook, in fact they are usually less than $3 and rarely more than $5. Additionally, ebooks can be better reads than many pbooks, as Vicki Tyley's Thin Blood, mentioned earlier, and Shayne Parkinson's Promises to Keep quartet, which I reviewed here and here, deftly prove. Each of these books cost less than $3 yet are exceedingly well-written and captivating.
But as seductive as they are, ebooks, for me, lack the permanence of hardcovers and the ability to pass down to children and grandchildren (which means that I value books, just as publishers want me to do; so why do publishers make it so hard to value ebooks? and, yes, I know I can strip DRM but I prefer not to), just as they lack the price of hardcovers (the great tradeoff). I have yet to surmount the peak where I am willing to forego adding hardcovers to my permanent library and only buy ebooks; I find that I look forward to giving my grandchildren my library. I expect the day is coming, however, when I buy only ebooks, but I do not see it in the immediate future and thus my need for great willpower. At least that willpower only needs to be exercised with fiction (for the moment) and I do not buy many hardcover fiction books. (I much prefer my fiction to be in ebook form so I don't feel bad about starting a novel and deciding that it was a waste of money and time; ebook fiction is easy to delete and doesn't take up precious space. I also generally prefer to buy from the independent authors I find at places like Smashwords, which is where I found Tyley and Parkinson.)
eBooks have captured me. Everything is right about fiction ebook reading, assuming, of course, that the book itself isn't one of those that falls into the Give Me a Brake! or Truman & MacArthur & Why a Good Editor is Important category, which, sadly, an increasing number of pbooks are doing these days. Additionally, what is right about ebooks and ebook reading seems to get "righter" with each passing year, especially as devices get better and authors and publishers more careful and concerned.
I guess this needs to be viewed as a warning to all those yet to be initiated into the addictive pleasure world of ebooks. Once you stick your toe into the ebook waters, you will be captured because the reading experience is excellent and keeps getting better as publishers take ebooks more seriously. This is one of those experiences that compel you to go forward, that does not permit backward movement. Just remember to keep control of your pocketbook so you don't end up like me: buying the same book twice; instead buy more ebooks, which is something else I do because I find I read significantly more books than ever before since I was captured by ebooks.
Via Rich Adin's An American Editor blog


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Panasonic has done it. This 50-inch plasma TV is a true home cinema heavyweight, in every sense of the word. The Panasonic TX-P50VT30B's backbreaking setup, however, is worth it for one of the most delectable performances of the year in our test rooms.
The TX-P50VT30B is the TV screen that cements Panasonic's reputation as the king of 2D plasma, and a similar position awaits it for 3D trickery, too. It's obvious right from the start that this is something special; the build quality is second to none, and the use of a single sheet of glass across the front of a very slim panel puts is above the likes of Samsung and Sony in the style stakes.
Looks-wise, the only slight minus is the rather wide bezel around the picture, which stretches to an 'enormous' 45mm - not huge, admittedly, but nothing on the single-figure measurements of Samsung's LED TVs such as the UE40D5520.
That's plasma tech for you, but there are so many more pluses to recommend this screen above any other 50-incher.
Chief of which is the way the Panasonic TX-P50VT30B handles 3D images. The 3D technology employed here is of the active shutter variety; brands such as Panasonic, Samsung and Sony are fighting a rearguard action against LG's passive 3D system, which boasts multiple 3D glasses that cost just a quid or two, but the TX-P50VT30B is a reason in itself for the active shutter system's existence.
Built around the brand's hugely impressive Infinite Black Pro 2 NeoPDP plasma panels, other sizes in the VT30 line-up aside from this 50-incher include the 42-inch Panasonic TX-P42VT30B, 55-inch Panasonic TX-P55VT30B and 65-inch Panasonic TX-P65VT30B.
Going for between £1,500 and £4,000, in engineering terms these VT30 screens are the inheritors of both the engineering brilliance and praise thrown at Pioneer's illustrious Kuro plasmas of a few years ago.
Jamie is a freelance tech, travel and space journalist based in the UK. He's been writing regularly for Techradar since it was launched in 2008 and also writes regularly for Forbes, The Telegraph, the South China Morning Post, Sky & Telescope and the Sky At Night magazine as well as other Future titles T3, Digital Camera World, All About Space and Space.com. He also edits two of his own websites, TravGear.com and WhenIsTheNextEclipse.com that reflect his obsession with travel gear and solar eclipse travel. He is the author of A Stargazing Program For Beginners (Springer, 2015),


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Maculinea arion female—Dartmoor, UK.
[Image courtesy of David Simcox, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK]
On the 25th anniversary of the project that brought the large blue butterfly back from extinction in the United Kingdom, ecologists are for the first time publishing the decades of research that helped them rescue this spectacular butterfly.
Released today in celebration of the reintroduction of the Large Blue Butterfly to Britain, the study shows how the large blue's extreme dependence on a single ant species led to the butterflies' demise, as their habitat became overgrown, causing soil temperatures to drop and ant numbers to diminish.
Before this discovery, butterfly collectors were generally blamed for the decline of this butterfly, also known as Maculinea arion.
The research, by Jeremy Thomas of the University of Oxford in Oxford, U.K., and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford, and his colleagues, will be published 18 June online by Science, at the Science Express Web site.
"This study tells the story of a remarkable, 40-year research effort that began with painstaking fieldwork—including the counting of individual butterfly eggs laid on flowers in the English countryside—and culminated with a major conservation victory. Science is delighted to be publishing this impressive body of work, and we expect that the peer-reviewed data will be an important tool for future conservation efforts," said Andrew Sugden, deputy and international managing editor at Science.
Said Thomas: "Human beings are so much larger than insects, it's very hard for us to appreciate that what to us is an imperceptible change in habitat can have devastating consequences for a species like the bizarre and beautiful large blue butterfly. A difference of a centimeter in grass length can change the soil temperature by 2 or 3 degrees C. If you're the size of an ant or butterfly that difference is massive."
In the 1970s, the International Union for Conservation of Nature selected three butterflies, including the large blue, as global flagships for the cause of lepidopteran conservation. These insects and others had been mysteriously disappearing for decades, despite attempts to save them.
The large blue butterfly was selected because of its beauty and prize-status for collectors, and because of its unusual life cycle, according to Thomas.
A Myrmica sabuleti worker ant drums the honey gland of a large blue butterfly caterpillar. The caterpillar rears up to mimic an ant grub and will shortly be carried into the ant's underground nest.
[Image courtesy of Jeremy Thomas]
Adult M. arion females lay their eggs on thyme flowers in the summer. After hatching, the caterpillars stay very small and many eventually fall to the ground. They secrete chemicals that attract red ants and fool them into thinking the caterpillars are ant grubs. The ants then carry the tiny caterpillars into their underground nests.
In most cases, only caterpillars that have landed in the nest of one particular ant species, Myrmica sabuleti, will survive to adulthood. The caterpillars' secretions are a sufficiently close match to those of M. sabuleti grubs that the ants never discover that they have been duped, and instead continue to protect the caterpillars for 10 months even though they are feeding on the ants' own brood. In early June, the caterpillars form a chrysalis near the colony entrance and then emerge to crawl aboveground two weeks later as butterflies.
While ecologists generally knew about this life cycle, the butterfly's intense dependence on M. sabuleti ants only came to light once Thomas began studying Britain's last surviving large blue butterfly colony.
"It was the nearest insect equivalent to living with the apes, I suppose," said Thomas.
"From May to late September, I was living with the last U.K. colony, measuring everything, including their behavior, how many eggs they laid, the survival of individual eggs, how many caterpillars were in the plants. It was a bit like a detective story."
The butterflies finally disappeared from Britain in 1979.
Thomas compiled this information into life tables, which show the number of new eggs and those that survived each year from 1972 to 1977, and which are now being published for the first time in the Science study.
With these field data, Thomas and his coauthors explored the possible factors that could be causing the butterflies decline. They realized that the grass in the butterflies' habitat had grown too long, as farmers had gradually stopped grazing their livestock on these hillsides and a viral infection had killed many of the wild rabbits in the 1950s.
The soil on these overgrown grasslands was therefore too cool to support adequate numbers of M. sabuleti ants. And, without enough ants to raise their young, the large blue butterflies dwindled. The researchers combined these ecological relationships into a numerical model, which is also being published for the first time in the Science study.
"I've been saving this paper up, as it were, for 25 years. None of the data points have been published. The life-cycle data and the life tables generated a model upon which all our conservation efforts were based. The description of this model is also new. There are few known examples of a model being able to predict the success of a conservation effort as well as ours did, for any insect," Thomas said.
In the late 1970s, after 40 years of trying to save the large blue by fending off butterfly collectors, conservationists followed Thomas' recommendations and restored the butterfly's proper habitat by clearing scrub and reintroducing grazing animals.
Starting in 1983, Thomas and his colleagues began introducing large blue butterflies imported from Sweden, into restored habitat sites. As of 2008, the butterflies occupied 30 percent more colonies than they had in the 1950s, before the major decline began. The large blue is now one of just three U.K. butterflies on course to meet the Convention of Biological Diversity's target to reverse species' declines by 2010. This rebound has closely followed the predictions generated by Thomas' model.
The picture in the rest of Europe is hazier, with the butterflies faring better in some countries than others. The data in this paper lay out the basis for similar restoration efforts for other butterflies with specific host requirements, such as the four related, globally threatened, species of large blue that are already starting to benefit from this approach across Europe, and the recovery of the Adonis blue butterfly from the brink of national extinction in the U.K., according to Thomas.
He said that, while conservation efforts used to tend to focus on adult butterflies, this research has shown that the needs of juveniles are often much more specific and can primarily drive a population's overall health. Being aware of this fact may allow ecologists to take a shortcut around compiling the time-consuming life tables that are traditionally the first step in understanding why a species is declining.
Restoring the large blue's habitat may also provide collateral benefits for other species that live there, the authors speculate in their study. On some of its conservation sites there have already been dramatic increases in rare birds, plants and other butterflies, such as the wood lark, pale heath violet and the pearl-bordered fritillary, Thomas said.


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Extreme Environments - Temperature and Moisture
This page describes environments that are very hot or very cold, extremely dry, or both. Extreme environments are places where "normal" life finds it hard to survive. That doesn't mean that there isn't any life in extreme environments. Certain creatures can live and grow in extreme environments. Scientists have a special name for creatures that live in extreme environments. They are called "extremophiles".
What kinds of environments are "extreme"? Some extreme environments that you may know about are deserts, mountain peaks, caves, and frozen places like the Arctic and Antarctic. Some other examples of extreme environments are places that are filled with acids, are blasted with radiation, or are under high pressure.
Many environments are too hot or too cold for most living creatures. The heat in deserts like the Sahara in Africa and Death Valley in North America makes it hard for life to survive there. What are some other hot environments that you may not know about? Hydrothermal vents in the ocean floor spew out very, very hot water. Geysers and hot springs in places like Yellowstone National Park in the USA also contain water that is too hot for most living creatures.
Really cold environments are tough on life too. The ice caps, snow fields, and sea ice found in the Arctic and Antarctic are examples of cold environments. High mountaintops around the world are also usually quite chilly. The deep oceans are not quite frozen, but they are still pretty cold, too. About 90% of ocean water is below a level called the thermocline. Water below the thermocline has a temperature between 0° and 4° C (32° and 39° F).
Places that are very dry are also extreme environments. The lack of water in deserts is hard on life. Many deserts are both very hot and very dry. Did you know that some deserts are cold instead of hot? Antarctica is actually Earth's largest desert! The Dry Valleys in Antarctica are some of the driest places on our planet. How dry can deserts be? Some places in the Atacama Desert in Chile get an average of less than 1 millimeter (0.04 inch) of rainfall a year! Sometimes many years go by there with no rain at all.


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Givaudan has submitted a patent application for a fermentation process in which green ripe uncured vanilla beans are incubated with Bacillus subtilis in isolated form to convert glucovanillin to vanillin while consistently forming a fully developed well-balanced vanilla aroma without off-notes.
The application listed the inventors as Eva Christina Maria Binggeli and Thomas Muench. According to the filing, the applicant discovered that "incubation with the bacterium B. subtilis can be used to ensure a good vanillin yield and provide a consistently high quality well-balanced complex vanilla flavor profile without off-notes in the resulting vanilla beans and their extracts."
"This fermentation process produces vanilla flavor compounds, wherein green ripe uncured vanilla beans are incubated with B. subtilis from a stock culture or with pre-cultured B. subtilis. The use of B. subtilis in a process to produce vanillin from glucovanillin and to convert other precursor vanilla flavor compounds bound to glucose to the relevant non-glucose-bound vanilla flavor compound (including, without limitation, vanillic acid, p-hydroxybenzaldehyde, and p-hydroxynbenzoic acid) as described herein produces a comparable or higher yield than traditional processes but with a more consistent fully developed complex sensory profile and without off-notes," according to the filing.
"Off-notes often present in traditional processes, without wishing to be bound by theory, appear to be caused at least in part by various bacteria and fungi that are present on or in the vanilla beans," the filing indicated. It noted the "addition of B. subtilis reduces or avoids these off-notes and the effect can be even more improved by reducing the microorganism count prior to the addition of B. subtilis."


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There's an unlikelihood so large in "Future Weather" that it nearly derails the film. That was what I admired the most about it. It involves the unusual amount of scientific knowledge possessed by Lauduree, its 13-year-old heroine, and Neel, the pudgy, shy classmate she defends against bullies.
These two are the students of Ms. Markovi (Lili Taylor) in a high school somewhere in Downstate Illinois. They get a lot of attention; Ms. Markovi starts a Science Club and carries on even when Lauduree (Perla Haney-Jardine) decides to drop out. Lauduree doesn't quit because of the obvious reason: Her worthless mom Tanya (Marin Ireland) has abandoned her in a trailer home with the rent unpaid and left for California "to pursue my dream of doing makeup for the stars."
No, even though Tanya left her only $50 (for food and things), Lauduree has dropped out because the club has started a project on reducing the CO2 emission in the atmosphere, and it duplicates work she has already started on her own. She'd lose her "database." Lauduree is fearsomely well-informed about global warming, and trades big words with Neel and their teacher as if they were colleagues in a think tank.
That's the flaw. There is little evidence to explain how Lauduree or Neel came into that information. Neel, a golden-skinned kid who peers out from behind his hair like a sheep dog, has somehow gotten on the same self-improvement track as his classmate. It's possible to know a lot of "scientific facts" at 13, and there are news reports almost daily of 12-year-olds whose Science Fair projects solve nuclear fusion. But nothing in this girl's life accounts for it. Lauduree, whose mother ran away from her after giving her that unfortunate name, is backstopped only by her grandmother, Greta (Amy Madigan), a chain-smoking, hard drinking potty mouth who is planning to move to Florida with her boyfriend Ed (William Sadler). These are not people who study polar bear videos on YouTube.
Lauduree, then, is a stranger in a strange land. Absorbed in her dreams, obsessed by her homework, she shows no grief or panic when left alone and broke by her mother. Without food money, her immediate reaction is to shoplift a light bulb that consumes low energy. One day she wears makeup and when Neel asks her why, she says it's to make herself look more normal so she can get more signatures on her petitions.
Reportedly, Jenny Deller, a 37-year-old born in Murphysboro, partly financed her film with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and I believe it. She may have gotten a tad carried away by the foundation's support for nature. The result is a film with characters we like (including those played by Lili Taylor and Amy Madigan), in a world that doesn't seem plausible. Yet there's such a sweetness in the way Lauduree carries potted trees everywhere, looking for a home for them. And when Neel and Lauduree get started on the mussels in a nearby creek, there's ecstasy in the way they discuss the role of the mussel in water filtration. They find a mussel stuck in the gravel at the button of a ditch, its slit bravely stuck upwards, and we expect "Ode to Joy."
The film's portrait of its small town is finely done. There is a fraught sequence when the faithless mom Tanya returns from California for a visit, and Greta lets her have it. There are indications that life is going to get more complicated here. But when a movie shows a couple of bright kids excited about a mussel, it's hard to say no.
100 minutes
Amy Madigan as Greta
Anubhav Jain as Neel
Perla Haney-Jardine as Lauduree
Lili Taylor as Ms. Markovi
William Sadler as Ed


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A few Americana-influenced blues licks that you will be able to get under your fingers quickly and use on the next Tuesday night blues jam.
Chops: Advanced Beginner
Theory: Intermediate
Lesson Overview:
• Learn how to play faux
open-G licks by retuning
only one string.
• Play a Texas shuffle à la
Stevie Ray Vaughan.
• Master the elements of
a "train beat."
I am a big roots-rock guy. To me, roots rock is a mix of blues, rock, country, honky tonk, and a ton of attitude. There are lots of open chords and strings ringing all over the place, plus a few spilled beers. In this month's lesson, we're going to look at a few Americana-influenced blues licks that you will be able to get under your fingers quickly and use on the next Tuesday night blues jam.
Two of my favorite players in this genre are David Grissom and Eddy Shaver. For Grissom, I'd suggest Joe Ely's Live at Liberty Lunch and any of his solo records. He is a master of this style. Unfortunately, Eddy Shaver (Billy Joe Shaver's son) passed away in 2000, but not without leaving us some great recordings. I highly suggest Billy's Unshaven: Live at Smith's Olde Bar. Man, that guy could play and what a tone.
The lick in Fig. 1 uses a neat tuning trick I picked up from ZZ Top's "Jesus Just Left Chicago." We're in the key of G, which is a great key for open strings because the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th strings are a G chord. Note: To get a full low G that has some ring to it, I've lowered the 5th string down to G. This makes this lick a breeze to play and emphasizes all those open strings. Dropped-G tuning offers some of the benefits of full open G tuning, yet soloing is much easier because your top four strings stay in standard tuning.
You can hear a bit more influence from the Rev. Billy Gibbons in Fig. 2. This is a funky, rootsy lick in A that uses a cool little bend. This lick is like mixing ZZ Top's "La Grange" with the bridge of Zep's "Black Dog." Play the A chord by barring the 4th and 3rd strings, so your pinky can grab the C at the 5th fret and give it a slight bend. Don't bend it too much—just keep it cool and bluesy. That's the "La Grange" part. We alternate the low notes at the end of each two-measure phrase between an F# and a G, just like Page does on "Black Dog." I always loved that.
This next lick in Fig. 3 is literally the "root" of rock 'n' roll. You can find traces of this lick from Muddy Waters and Hubert Sumlin to Jonny Lang and Warren Haynes. It has swagger and attitude, and it grooves hard. Also, it has inspired a ton of tunes, most notably would be Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)." As a result, I teach this to all of my students. It's important to sit into the groove right on this one and the bend/pulloff combo can be a bit challenging. If all you do for the next few days is perfect this lick, you'll have done yourself a great favor.
I am such a sucker for the shuffle feel in Fig. 4—not to mention the sound of those big ringing open chords combined with a little bluesy riff. This one plays up that great sound of mixing the scale's lowered 3 and natural 3. An important element to getting this to sound right is not to play too softly. Really smack the crap out of the strings. Also, don't gain out your amp too much— you want to keep the clarity of the chords.
We could easily devote a whole column to Stevie Ray Vaughan's rhythm style, but you can get a good idea of the feel he typically uses on tunes such as "Pride and Joy" and "Cold Shot" in Fig. 5. Basically it goes between E and A while adding some of that classic Texas shuffle. When first trying to play this, I stumbled on a happy mistake: Over-barring with your 1st finger on the A chord lets you catch the F# on the 2nd fret. Whoa! This not only sounds cool because you form an A6 chord, it also makes the riff easier to play. Your picking hand plays a huge part in this lick by constantly swinging the eighth-notes and muting the strings. Not sure what I mean? Just watch almost any video of SRV and all will be clear.
No roots lesson would be complete without a good train beat. I love this feel, but soloing over it really kicks your butt because the tempo demands some ripping. Fig. 6 is basically just an A chord, but the hard part is keeping the low A pumping on beats 1 and 3. I also use hybrid picking on this, so my pick plays the low A and my middle and ring fingers pluck the 3rd and 2nd strings, respectively. Not easy, but super cool.
I hope you enjoyed some of these roosty blues licks. They're a big part of my playing and hopefully they'll open a few doors for you.
Jeff McErlain
Jeff McErlain is a New York City-based guitar player, producer, songwriter, and educator. He performs regularly in NYC and abroad with his trio and blues band. Jeff has a number of instructional DVDs available at TrueFire.com, and he is a featured instructor for the National Guitar Workshop. Jeff's latest CD I'm Tired is available on iTunes or at jeffmcerlain.com.


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Touch Gestures
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In a tournament full of tight games, with six of eight going to overtime, the Wenatchee Wild provided the first blowout win Thursday afternoon.
Facing the Wellington Dukes in a matinee matchup at Prospera Centre, Wenatchee got two goals apiece from Zak Galambos and August Von Ungern in a 7-1 win.
Wenatchee finished off an unbeaten round-robin (4-0).
Wellington will be Chilliwack's biggest fan tonight as the Chiefs face the Steinbach Pistons. Steinbach a win to jump the Dukes in the standings and get the final semi-final spot because Welllington holds the head-to-head tiebreaker.
Wenatchee took just 24 seconds to open the scoring in this one on a goal by Galambos. The defenceman collected a loose puck at the point, walked the blue line to the middle and put a wrister on net. With his own defenceman blocking his vision, Dukes goalie Jonah Capriotti never saw it as it zipped past him into the cage.
The Wild doubled the lead at 8:20 on a solo effort by Von Ungern. The Baron turned on the jets on a rush down the left wing, chipping the puck past Wellington defenceman Keegan Ferguson at the blueline. Cutting hard to the net, Ungern had to chip the puck over another Dukes defender who was sliding across to block. The puck fluttered into the air and Ungern showed great hand-eye coordination to bat it into the net.
Wellington briefly cut into the lead on a goal by Andrew Rinaldi. A defensive breakdown left the Montreal native with no one between him and the Wild net as he took a long lead pass from Ben Evans. Rinaldi skated in and put the puck between the legs of Wenatchee goaltender Austin Park.
But the Wild had the last laugh in period one, scoring a backbreaker with just three seconds on the clock.
With Wellington's Mitchell (My Favourite) Martan in the box for slashing, Wenatchee's Jasper Weatherby uncorked a shot from the right faceoff dot. Capriotti made the stop, but the puck dropped in the blue paint where Sam Hesler stuffed it in on the backhand.
The Dukes continued with the same penchant for undisciplined play that they've shown the entire tournament, taking three penalties in the opening 20, leading to a 14-5 edge for the Wild on the shot clock.
Wenatchee broke the game wide open with three second period goals, starting with a Cooper Zech snipe at 8:30.
The smooth skating defenceman took a pass from Weatherby at the left point and was allowed to walk in unchecked, taking a wrist shot that beat Capriotti through a screen. Zech's goal ended the goalie's night, a disappointing four goals on 18 shots for the 19 year old Hamilton native.
Tyler Richardson took over in the Wellington net.
The first thing he saw was Von Ungern tearing down the left wing, cutting across the goal mouth and slipping a backhand shot inside the right post.
Galambos blew a wrist shot past Richardson from the left faceoff dot at 12:03.
Richardson was solid from that point until the final minute of the game, when a soft sharp-angle backhand shot from Drake Usher beat him to wrap up the scoring.
Final shots on goal favoured the Wild 41-19.
Wenatchee's Player of the Game was Von Ungern while Rinaldi took the honours for Wellington.


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The Posche Fashion Show drama rages on for the Real Housewives of New Jersey!
And a new report today by the Huffington Post's Rob Shuter is adding fuel to the fire. What is clear is that during the Tuesday night fashion show, there was an attempt by one or more parties to expose Melissa Gorga as an alleged past stripper.
A source told Reality Tea yesterday that Kim DePaola was the one heading this attempt with some help from her new BFF Teresa Giudice. The Huffington Post is however claiming today that Teresa was not behind the expose but rather Bravo producers who had the owner of the strip club come to the fashion show. Even worse, the article is claiming that Melissa did indeed used to be a stripper — something Melissa is still denying.
"The ladies were taping a fashion show at Posche," an insider states. "Teresa [Giudice] didn't want to go because she's completely over the fake Bravo set-ups; however, no one knew what was about to happen. Melissa [Gorga] was nervous that ex-Housewife Danielle Staub was going to show up, but it turned out the surprise guest would be much more damaging."
Teresa The source continues: "Bravo's surprise at the fashion show was for Melissa: her ex-boss at Lookers, the strip club she used to work at. No one knew him, no one knew he was coming — although, of course Bravo had a microphone on him — and Melissa ran away from him and refused to film with him," a witness at the taping says. "The producers made Teresa talk to him to 'hear him out,' so his accusations would be aired on camera, but Teresa stopped him mid-story and told him to not talk about her family and left."
A new source today however tells Reality Tea that Bravo producers were NOT the ones behind the attempt to expose Melissa but rather Kim D. with the help of Teresa. The source states Bravo originally wanted to have the reunion on the 27th — the same night as the Posche Fashion Show — but Kim D. freaked out and convinced the higher ups to move the date promising there would be some air worthy drama.
Twitter user @RIONJ1 told Reality Tea the following: "A fact is a fact. [Melissa] used to work as a dancer at Looker's Gentlemen's Club in Elizabeth. Her former manager bought tickets to the show and brought it up on camera when he came over to introduce her. She was paranoid and called Joe Gorga and told her "she was being set up" and parroted that to everyone else. She just assumed Teresa was in on it because she still hates Tre." RIONJ1 adds that Melissa's former manager is the one who paid for her boob job.
The Huffington Post article goes on to add that Jacqueline Laurita and Teresa continued their twitter battle offline following the fashion show fiasco and that Jacqueline, who believes Teresa was in on the set- up, was the one who leaked out a photo to the press of Joe Giudice having dinner with another woman.
"Jacqueline's parting shot after she hung up the phone was to text Teresa a photo of [her husband] Joe and [a] mystery lady at dinner and said she was going to leak it to the press to hurt Teresa," an insider claims.
The above paragraph is pretty doubtful as Joe was photographed having dinner with the mystery lady while the fashion show was going on. So it's highly unlikely Jacqueline was the one who snapped the picture and then leaked it to the press.
Teresa The Huffington Post "source" however claims Joe wasn't cheating on Teresa and that Teresa knew about the dinner with the mystery lady. Uh Uh.
"Teresa's laughing about it privately, because she knew about it already. Joe had told Teresa he ran into the girl, a family friend, the night when he went out for drinks with his buddies," claims the source. "The girl has a boyfriend, and I'm pretty sure Joe wouldn't carry on a big affair at TGI Fridays in Clifton."
Immediately after the Huffinton Post story was published, Melissa once again denied the story tweeting, "I like rob but this is so untrue." And when a fan stated the obvious which is that the story likely came from Teresa's camp, Melissa replied: "You think?!?" Our original source yesterday also stated "Melissa was never a stripper" so the stripper mystery continues…